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| a socially created institution that coordinates human activity in the effort to produce, distribute, and consume goods and services |
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| a process by which a power maintains its dominance over other entities |
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| the process by which plant and animals were brought under human control |
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| the addition of external sources of power, such as oil or steam, to hand tools and modes of transportation |
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| a form of domination in which one country imposes its political, economic, social, and cultural institutions on an indigenous population and the land it occupies |
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| an economic system in which the raw materials and the means of producing and distributing goods and services are privately owned; characterized by private ownership of the means of production are profit and consumer driven, and free from government interference |
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| a situation in which individuals (rather than workers, the government or communal groups) own the raw materials, machines, tools, labor and other inputs needed to produce and distribute goods and services |
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| an economic system in which the raw materials and the means of producing and distributing goods and services are collectively owned |
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| a large corporation that owns smaller corporations acquired through merger or acquisition |
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| a situation in which a single producer dominates the market |
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| a situation in which a few producers dominate the market |
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| primary sector (of the economy) |
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| economic activities that generate or extract raw materials form the natural environment |
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| secondary sector (of the economy) |
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| economic activities that transform raw materials into manufactured goods |
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| tertiary sector (of the economy) |
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| economic activities related to delivering services, including the creation and distribution of information |
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| a socially constructed institution that regulates the use of and access to power that is essential to articulating and realizing individual, local, national, international or global interests and agendas |
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| the probability that an individual can achieve his or her will, even against another individual's opposition |
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| legitimate power in which people believe that the differences just and proper, people view a leader as being entitled to give orders |
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| relies on traditions/norms that govern the selection of someone to a powerful position (chief, king, queen) and the specify responsibilities and appropriate conduct for the individual |
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| derives from the exceptional and exemplary qualities of the person who issues the commands |
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| rests on a system of impersonal rules that formally specifies the qualifications for occupying a powerful position |
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| the organizational structure that directs and coordinates people's involvement in the political activities or other territory (e.g. state) within that country |
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| view of politics as an arena of compromise, alliances, and negotiations among many competing and different special-interest groups. and power as something that is dispersed among these groups |
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| those few who occupy such loft positions in the social structure of leading institutions that their decisions have consequences effecting millions of people worldwide |
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| source of increasing complexity in devision of labor |
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| once basic needs are met (food shelter), you have new needs, new products and technology = more complexity |
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